Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week Churchill and his chieftains had a chance to overthrow the Government and force a general election. Labor was split over the conscription bill; a fortnight ago 75 anti-conscription Laborite rebels voted against the Government. Its skin was saved by the Conservatives, who voted for the bill-although they might have found reasons of their own for opposing it, and thus forced a general election. The tactical opportunity will still be open to the Tories when the bill comes up for second reading...
...parties. It remained valid during the rise & fall of the Populist, Progressive, Bull Moose and Socialist-Labor movements. Their adherents were loyal to the U.S. first, to their party second-and never to a foreign government. Not until 1939 was the rule amended, to bar those who seek to overthrow the U.S. Government...
Denial of freedom of the press and of radio to those inciting racial hatred or advocating the overthrow of the United States Government was the subject of a non-decision debate sponsored by the Union Debate Society in the North Common Room of the Union last night...
...heart of the Secretary's argument is his contention that, above all else, the bona fide CP member is devoted to a system of thought which has as its end the overthrow of the American Constitution. There is, indeed, some justification for this thesis. But when Mr. Schwellenbach tries to apply this line of reasoning to the problem of eliminating Communist influence he trips and falls, for his premise does almost everything except support his conclusions...
Nevertheless, the Army stands by him. Five times his opponents have tried to overthrow him. Once his 31-year-old War Minister, Major Jacobo Arbenz, yanked him away from a wedding at 10 p.m. with the news that a revolution was due at 2. Arevalo protested that he still had a few more hours for the wedding party before confronting the revolution...